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Core Skills and the Idea of the Graduate
Author(s) -
Woollard Anthony
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1995.tb01684.x
Subject(s) - scrutiny , autonomy , higher education , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , engineering ethics , public relations , core (optical fiber) , sociology , political science , pedagogy , academic community , psychology , law , social science , computer science , engineering , telecommunications , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
The question ‘What is a graduate?’ is under scrutiny from Government, employers and the higher education community itself. There are two current approaches—one originating within the philosophy of higher education, one emerging from the demands of employers and the focus on ‘core skills’—which might appear to have something to offer to the debate but which when first examined seem hard to reconcile and both of them difficult to translate into ‘threshold standards’. However, more detailed examination suggests the possibility of a new synthesis which could, if supported by further research and action by the Higher Education community collectively, answer the question to the satisfaction of all stakeholders whilst preserving essential academic autonomy.